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title: She might have continued for long in this fashion had not the voice… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: She might have continued for long in this fashion had not the voice of a crow directly overhead attracted her attention. Who acts: Fairy, fashion. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 27, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 27, sentence 62

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She might have continued for long in this fashion had not the voice of a crow directly overhead attracted her attention.

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**Who acts:** Fairy, fashion · **What happens:** continue, have, attract, attend · **To what, where:** voice, attention

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fairy, fashion), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg3027:27:62
# text = She might have continued for long in this fashion had not the voice of a crow directly overhead attracted her attention.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux	_	_
4	continued	continue	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	obl	_	_
7	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
9	fashion	fashion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	crow	crow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	directly	directly	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
18	overhead	overhead	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	attracted	attract	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
20	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	attention	attention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **continue** | might · perfect | Fairy |  |  |  |  | for long | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **have** | past | this fashion | the voice of a crow |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voice=Patient |
| 3 | **attract** | past | this fashion *not said here* | fashion's attention |  |  |  | directly, overhead *property* | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attention=Patient |
| 4 | **attend** |  | fashion |  |  |  |  |  | nom attention «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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